That droning of an aid worker & his family is getting so much bad press because, I think, the circumstances & context set it apart from the usual droning which blows up a wedding or birthday party (or even
that time Obama bombed an MSF hospital and killed dozens). It's the very last thing the US did in Afghanistan before bugging out completely - and it's not a heroic elimination of one last terrorist cell, not even the guys who actually masterminded the killing of 13 American service personnel, nor was it any act of humane charity and benevolence that benefited the Afghans one last time.
Nope, it was vaporizing an innocent worker for an
American aid org and nine of his kin, including seven kids, and then lying about it for a week or two before finally admitting to the atrocity. I'm sure there have been misaimed dronings and bombings that killed way more people in the past, but THIS is the capstone of America's 20-year project in Afghanistan, the very last thing it did before wrapping up the evacuation. I cannot understate how bad it looks that on top of a chaotic, disastrously managed evac which I've heard got a lot of randoms and trafficked girls out rather than actual SIVs anyway, the War in Afghanistan was capped off by the imbecilic West Wing LARPers in the Biden admin and their wokified military planners blindly lashing out in spite & desperation after the inevitable terror attack targeted their guys on the ground and humiliated them, managing for all that only to murder one of the Afghans who'd been on their side and his family. What a legacy!
How's this for an iconic sentiment in future Russian and Chinese propaganda: 'you sell out to the liberal Western world order and not only will they fail to carry out any of their promises to you, kill thousands of your people and corrupt your youth with their degenerate ways while they're at it, but on their way out they'll pointlessly kill some more of yours in one last flailing attempt to feel big & strong'. I really hope this isn't the brain-trust that's expected to take on China in the Pacific because God damn, I cannot think of a bunch who will lose the conflict for the US and the West as a whole more quickly than Biden, Harris, the idiots working under them, and their probable successors.
('But everyone in the Pacific Rim hates China!' You may argue. Sure, it's true that basically everyone from Korea/Japan down to Indonesia and Vietnam have laundry lists of historical and present-day grievances against the Chicoms. It was also true that damn near everyone who wasn't a Pashtun and an extreme Deobandi hated the Taliban in 2002. The neoliberal/neocon establishment seems to have a special talent for driving away allies, giving free shit to enemies and mismanaging war efforts into the dirt, if they can lose to the Taliban I'm sure they can find new and exciting ways to gift the entirety of the Pacific to China once they finish their 'pivot' there)